Re: Zombies

I'm by no means an expert on this but the zombies I've experienced in the past have all been unrelated OS/hardware faults. I had a lot of zombies show up over last Christmas on my development box which I (much later) traced to a faulty HD.

I'd say find out when these processes went zombie and check the syslog and apache error-log for those times and possibly the development.log of the app itself. Ruby shouldn't just zombie for no reason, in fact in my limited understanding Linux shouldn't allow it to, unless Linux itself is having problems.